Myrtle Beach Golf Blog

Cypress Bay Golf Club in Little River has been sold to a housing developer, and has been scheduled to close after February for redevelopment. Columbia based Mungo Homes, who also have a pair of .... Read More

SPEED UP PLAY—IT WOULD BE GREAT FOR EVERYONE IF WE COULD PLAY IN 4-4 1/2 HOURS OR LESS IF EVERYONE WOULD PRACTICE GOOD GOLF ETTIQUETTE—REPAIR BALL MARKS—REPLACE .... Read More

Jimmy Biggs is the head golf professional at the award winning Crow Creek Golf Club in Calabash, N.C.  The Grand Strand is very fortunate to have Jimmy choose it as the place to practice his .... Read More

The golf courses along the Grand Strand have always assumed that visiting golfers expected the grass to be green year round.  It is the reason course have always gone through expensive .... Read More

This past June, Sea Trail Golf Resort and Conference Center was sold at a Chapter 11 bankruptcy auction for $8.5 million.  The purchaser was a Chinese businessman known as Mr. Pan.  He is .... Read More

While visiting Myrtle Beach you may want to stop into one of our many golf retail outlets and be custom fitted for your next set of clubs.  There are three ways to improve your golf: (a) .... Read More

When visiting Myrtle Beach on your next golf trip you might stop into one of our many golf retail outlets.  If you are in the market for a new set of clubs it is important that you understand .... Read More

Cassandra “Cassey” Nicholl, an eighth grade student at North Myrtle Beach Middle School, earned rave reviews after delivering her award-winning essay on how a golf course can benefit a .... Read More

When visiting the beautiful Grand Strand on your next golf trip you will undoubtedly encounter many restaurants advertising World Famous Calabash Style Seafood.  These are the facts concerning .... Read More

The Thistle Golf Club in Sunset Beach, N.C. has new owners, new management and plans for some big changes for the course. Many are improvements, and the most significant change is the elimination of .... Read More

While you are enjoying your golf at many of the fantastic Myrtle Beach golf courses, you might experience finding your ball on a cart path or two. Most Myrtle Beach golf courses have cart paths. They .... Read More

Todd Welden, the only head golf professional at Caledonia Golf & Fish Club since its opening in 1994, passed away recently at the age of 50 after a battle with cancer.Welden learned late this .... Read More

In June of 1980, 63 golfers gathered for the Atlantic City Senior International, the inaugural event on the Senior PGA Tour.  They knew they were on the ground floor of something, just not .... Read More

Two time heart transplant recipient Erik Compton has been awarded the first PGA Tour Courage Award. The award is for players who have overcome extraordinary adversity to make meaningful contributions .... Read More

PGA Tour star and former Coastal Carolina standout Dustin Johnson has opened a new golf school in Myrtle Beach.  The Director of Instruction is Allen Terrell who coached Johnson at Coastal and .... Read More

Every year Myrtle Beach and the entire Grand Strand look forward to the annual migration of Snowbirds.  The Grand Strand with its sixty miles of sandy white beaches along the beautiful Atlantic .... Read More

Here are some tips that you might want to use when visiting Myrtle Beach on your next golf vacation.  SHOW UP AT LEAST 30 MINUTES before your tee time.  Most players have a tendency to .... Read More

Coastal Carolina University has announced that it has hired Conway native Kevin McPherson to head up its golf program.  McPherson was entering his third year as the head men’s golf coach .... Read More

With Myrtle Beach having 100 plus golf courses, it is only natural for a huge number of golf professionals to come and go.  One fortunately came and stayed.  His name is Gene Weldon and he .... Read More

Peter Jacobsen has been named the 2013 winner of the Payne Stewart Award. The Payne Stewart Award is presents annually to a professional golfer who best exemplifies the values of character, charity .... Read More